The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-07-28
NEW LINES OF WORK.
WHY WOMEN WOULD MAKE GOOD
APOTHECARIES.


APOTHECARIES.
Pharmacy Within tho Sphere of womun's
Usefulncss--h Successful New Orleans
Female Druggist.
(From the Philadelphia Record)
The time is past for asking the quos-
tion whether women ought to work;
they do work. There is no longer any
need to inquire whaS they are able to do.
They are employed in almost every call
ing. With their assistance our little
ones learn of the common things of life
in the Kindergarten; our older children
meet them ns superintcndents of schools
and professors in colleges; their quick
fingers have been rapidly trained in the
kindred occupations Of shorthand and
type-writing; as florists many of them
arc succeeding, and (what employment
could be moro fitting?) as professional
nurses they find exceeding favor in the
slck-room; as authors they are winning
fame and fortune; in painting and in
duStrlal designing they arc making rapid
progress; as physicians they have fairly
won acknowledgement of their useful
ness; as lawyers they have shown un-
lookGd-tor ability; as preachers, readers
and lecturers they have not lacked ap.
pause, and III almost every wage-earn-
ing capacity tilcy have undertaken they
have proved that if they will they make
an honorable living.
NEGLECTED LINES OF WORK.
But, Notwithstanding the push and
enterprise which distinguish the sex in
torclng their way into n great diversity
OF employmonts, the fact remains that
some callngs which are eminently suited
to woman arc sadly neglected by them.
That OF the druggist, acknowledged to
be among the bost paying occupations,
finds comparatively few women in its
ranks. If | mistake not Mrs. Rudolph,
Of New Orleans, was the first woman to
own and conduct a drug store. Her
husband was II druggist, and when he
dled, about nine years ago, leaving her
two babes and brave heart rs her sole
heritage, she determined to fill his place.
10 tins end she applied for q pharma-
ceutlcal course at tho Tulane Medical
College, which was denied her. She
then began Il system of private lessons
under tho Professor of Pharmacy, and
III two years graduated with credit and
received the hearty endorsement of the
Examining Board. Then camo the
struggle with an overwhelming popular
prejudice against allowing q woman to
cole out powders and pills, which might,
alter all, haVO wrecked the success Of
her enterprise but for some Just and rca-
soning physicians who held out helping
hands to her and brought her safely into
the haven of prosperity. Now she is
one OF the most prosperous druggists in
New Orleans.
WOMEN AT TIE PRESCRIPTION DESK,
In spite OF struggles, Mrs. Rudolph is
enthusiastic On the subject, and STRONGLY
urges yuJ"y women to the study and
practices 9, larmacy. She says that any
young WouHn who has the ground work
OF Goou education and is imbued with
determination and honesty of purpose
need 10 Gcar of failure. And to prove
the truth Of L2l words, several women
III the business are meeting with marked
success. Miss Lucy King, Of Chatta-
nOoga, is noted as one of the ahlest rep
SentatlVeS OF her profession. She is the
managing editrcss of the Drugman, a
paper endorsed and adopted by the State
pharmaceutical Conventions of Georpia
and Louisiana as their representative
Journal. The quality which would seem
10 make the genus Of woman eminently
valuable at the prescription desk is tho
rare caution which most Of them oxer-
clso when once warned of possible dan
ger, and when SO infalliblo an authority
as Huxley says the study of chemistry
Is peculiarly adapted to tho feminine |
mind, tue point of their fitness as drug
8lsta clerks passes ont of the line of dis |
Putation. The facilities for prosecuting
their studies nowadays in that direction |
Is another induccment for them to more
widcly adopt the calling.
WOMEN PHYSICIANS.
The study Of medicine and its twin
science, pharmacy, by women is no new
thing. In the first medical school es-
taOlishcd during the first Christian era
women taught side by side with men.
The school Of Sulornum contained in its